Obituary.

eluded thus : " May I be permitted to mention , that it was the experience of some of these effects of old age op the muscular motions that led my thoughts tq this speculation , ' which , as it is owing to the infirmities of age , will , I hope , be heard with the greater indulgence . It is both pleasant and

useful to " contemplate , with gratitude , the wisdom and goodness of the author of our being , ' in fitting this machine of our body so admirably to the various ' employments and enjoyments of life . " Mr . T . Bailey , formerly Warehouse 7 man at the University Printing Office , Cambridge ; a man of" very singular

character . The week before his death , being apparently in good health , he ordered his coffin to be made , of red deal , in the rough , which he garnished with herbs , giving also orders for his interment without a shroud ; he even proceeded to hire and pay his bearers , predicting his own death on the Saturday follo-. ving- ' r-h ' e lived , however , till " Wednesday ' .

At his house , in Arlington-street , the Most Nobla Thomas Thynne , Marquis of Bath , knight of the garter , groom of the stole to his Majesty , a incmber of the Privy Council , highsteward of Tamwortb , and elder brother of the Trinhy-house , a governor of the Charter-house , & c . His

Lordship languished nearly 6 months , under a complaint arising from a tumour in in his neck , which terminated in an abscess that baffled medical skill ,, but which he bore with the greatest fortihide and resignation—His character as a statesman , a scholar ' , and gentleman , have long been the subject of

admiration ; and his amiable domestic qualities its a husband , father , and friend , are well known . His Lordship was born the 24 th of September , 1734 , ant ' married iu i" 53 . to Lady Elizabeth Cavendish Benfinck , sister ' to the present Puke of Portland . He has left by her Ladyship , who survives him , three sons

and five daughters ; and is" succeeded in his title-, and estates by his eldest 5011 Thomas . 'At St . Helen's Aukland , Com . Durham , Mr . ' Michael iiroadbelt , a most ingenious' clock-maker , into which machines he had introduced a great number of improvements and novelties , though his proficiency was the cffV'ct of intuitive genius , an : ! of application

Unaided by any previous instructions his general skill in mechanics was displayed in a great varietv » -of curious inventions ; some of his clocks contain small orreries—and others are furr nished with chimes , said to be more strictly consonant to harmonic

principles than such machines are commonly found to be r-His mind , which , as well as his hands , was continually en-. r ployed , appeared to have no bounds to its researches ; and his most intiniate acquaintance are of opinion , that he received little or no information from hooks ; he was seldom known

to con-it . t any ; and seemed only to have a small acquaintance with the best scientific writers , even en his favourite subjects . —To the superior force , then , of his native genius , must be ascribed the numerous productions which , in a more public situation , would have rendered him eminent I Lately , he

planned and constructed an organ , which , by competent judges , was pronounced a good instrument , and was lately sold 10 a musical gentleman , for a considerable sum of money . At Renmore , near Tavmouth , ( lie

seat of the Earl of Bredalbane , in Scotland , Robert Johnson , of Newcastleupon-Tyne- — " A youth lo fortune and to fame unknozon , " who , if life had been preserved till he had reached the maturity of age , gave fair hopes that he would have carried the fine arts , in some of their most

difficult branches , to a perfection they have not hitherto attained in Britain . The few persons who were within the narrow circle of his acquaintance , esteemed him hot less for the goodness of his heart , than they prized him for those uncommon talents , which , in spite of a variety of depressingcircumstances

, shone forth , in him , with a splendor that astonished every one who had an opportunity of observing , and powers to appreciate , them . They now , with the most sympathetic woe , condole with his aged parents , of whom he was the so / ace and support , and deeply mourn his tintirnely fate , not as a private

misfortune only , but as a national loss , which ihey cannot indulge the hope of living to see supplied . On -Monday morning , the 24 th of October last , at his house in Landvery , Caerinarlhenshire , of the gout , in the 69 th . year of his age , Arthur Davies ,